Midhurst / Medhas

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover - north side

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view of font and cover - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06534MID

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denis [aka Denys]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene & St. Denis

Church Location: 4 Church Hill, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 9NJ

Country Name: England

Location: West Sussex, South East

Directions to Site: Located 20 km N of Chichester up the A286. The church is on the E side of Church Hill

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester

Historical Region: Hundred of Easebourne -- Rape of Chichester -- Sussex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the N arch of the tower

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: Harrison (1920): "This church was formerly a chapel of the priory of Easeboume."

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for Midhurst in the Domesday survey. Reported in Harrison (1920) as a square baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Whiteman (1994): "Beneath the N arch is the octagonal font, probably Early English, on a pedestal of similar shape, both carved with uncusped arches". The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 4, 1953) notes: "The chancel appears to have been enlarged in the 15th or 16th century, the ground stage of the tower is of the early 13th, its upper stages and the aisles east and west of it the 16th, the vestibule is modern, as is, apparently, the whole of the north aisle [...] The font, under the north arch of the tower, is octagonal on an octagonal stem; both have sunk panels with uncusped pointed heads, perhaps 13th-century; a wooden cover is of the 17th." The wooden cover is of the common Jacobean style: a flat platform with eight (?) vertical scroll ribs meeting up at a knob finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.986074, -0.737118

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 9.86″ N, 0° 44′ 13.63″ W

UTM: 30U 658825 5650714

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? / Jacobean?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-08-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920

Whiteman, Ken, Ancient Churches of Suffolk, Seaford, East Sussex: S.B. Publications, 1998